MARCH 9-10 | NCAA INDOOR CHAMPIONSHIPS MEET NOTES TRACK & FIELD CONTACT: Josh Carson ([email protected] | 785-312-1700) INDOOR NCAA INDOOR CHAMPIONSHIPS SEASON Date: MARCH 9-10, 2018 Start Time: FRIDAY - NOON // SATURDAY - NOON BU SEASON OPENER Location: COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS Live Results: NCAA.COM Dec. 2 // Boston, Mass. // Boston U Track & Tennis Center Host: TEXAS A&M Broadcast: WATCHESPN.COM Venue: GILLIAM INDOOR STADIUM Men’s Rank: NO. 30 BOB TIMMONS CHALLENGE Track: 200M BANKED MONDO Women’s Rank: NO. 24 Dec. 2 // Lawrence, Kan. // Anschutz Sports Pavilion ARKANSAS INVITATIONAL Jan. 12 // Fayetteville, Ark. // Randal Tyson Track Center KU-KSU-WSU TRIANGULAR STARTING LINE MEET Jan. 13 // Manhattan, Kan. // Ahearn Field House JAYHAWKS HEADED TO NCAA CHAMPIONSHIPS The Kansas men’s and women’s track & field teams will SCHEDULE MARK COLLIGAN MEMORIAL be represented in a total of 10 events at the 2018 NCAA FRIDAY, MARCH 9 Jan. 20 // Lincoln, Neb. // Devaney Sports Center Division I Indoor Track & Field Championships in College TIME EVENT Station, Texas, March 9-10. 5:30 p.m. Men’s Pole Vault (Final) JAYHAWK CLASSIC 7:15 p.m. Men’s 800-Meter Run (Prelims) Jan. 25-26 // Lawrence, Kan. // Anschutz Sports Pavilion Live results from the national championship meet will be 7:20 p.m. Men’s Shot Put (Trials & Finals) available through NCAA.com and a live stream of the event 8:25 p.m. Women’s 5,000-Meter Run (Final) ROD MCCRAVY MEMORIAL 9 p.m. Women’s Distance Medley Relay (Final) Feb. 2-3 // Lexington, Ky. // Nutter Field House will be broadcast on ESPN3 via WatchESPN.com. A re-air of the championships will be available on Sunday, March SATURDAY, MARCH 10 IOWA STATE CLASSIC 11, at 6 p.m. CST on ESPN2. Feb. 9-10 // Ames, Iowa // Lied Recreation Center TIME EVENT LAST YEAR AT THE NCAA INDOOR CHAMPIONSHIPS 4 p.m. Women’s Pole Vault (Final) TYSON INVITATIONAL At the 2017 NCAA Indoor Championships, the Kansas 5 p.m. Men’s Triple Jump (Trials & Finals) Feb. 9-10 // Fayetteville, Ark. // Randal Tyson Track Center men’s team finished 27th overall while the women’s team 5:30 p.m. Men’s 800-Meter Run (Final) finished 52nd. 6:25 p.m. Women’s 3,000-Meter Run (Final) ARKANSAS QUALIFIER 6:40 p.m. Men’s 4x400-Meter Relay (Final) Feb. 16 // Fayetteville, Ark. // Randal Tyson Track Center The Kansas men saw six individual performers qualify for 6:55 p.m. Women’s 4x400-Meter Relay (Final) ALEX WILSON INVITATIONAL last year’s championships, as well as the men’s 4x400- Feb. 17 // South Bend, Ind. // Loftus Sports Center meter relay team. *Events with Kansas entries only. A complete schedule of the NCAA Indoor Championships can be found online at BIG 12 INDOOR CHAMPIONSHIP The Kansas women qualified the distance medley relay NCAA.com. Feb. 23-24 // Ames, Iowa // Lied Recreation Center team as well as long jumper Sydney Conley. NCAA INDOOR CHAMPIONSHIPS Barden Adams was Kansas’ highest finisher on either March 9-10 // College Station, Texas // Gilliam Indoor Stadium team at last year’s championships, finishing fifth in the triple jump. The women’s distance medley relay team picked up First Team All-America honors with a seventh- WATCH FOR... OUTDOOR place finish. Joining Adams and the women’s DMR as First Team BRYCE SEASON All-Americans were Nicolai Ceban (shot put) and Gleb ARKANSAS SPRING INVITATIONAL Dudarev (weight throw). HOPPEL March 24 // Fayetteville, Ark. // John McDonnell Field JUNIOR / MIDLAND, TEXAS KANSAS INDOOR CHAMPIONSHIP HISTORY TEXAS RELAYS Kansas sophomore Bryce Hoppel enters the NCAA The Kansas men own three indoor team titles (1966, Championships as the No. 2-seeded runner in the 800 March 28-31 // Austin, Texas // Mike A. Myers Stadium 1969, 1970) and boast 20 indoor national champions, the most recent being Egor Agafonov who won back-to-back meters, making him the highest-ranked Jayahwk at STANFORD INVITATIONAL indoor shot put titles in 2007 and 2008. this year’s national championships. Hoppel recorded his March 30-31 // Stanford, Calif. // Cobb Track and Angell Field season-best time at the ISU Classic, winning the event The Kansas women have yet to win an indoor team title, with in 1:47.09. His time marked the second-fastest in ORAL ROBERTS INVITATIONAL but have finished as the runner-up twice (2012, 2013) and Kansas men’s indoor history behind only Jeremy Mims. March 31 // Tulsa, Okla. // ONEOK Sports Complex have posted one third place finish (1979). Hoppel surpassed Kansas legend Jim Ryun with the time, then later recorded the third-fastest clocking in Kansas SUN ANGEL CLASSIC In the 2012 runner-up finish, the Kansas women saw two history in the event at the Big 12 Indoor Championship. April 6-7 // Tempe, Ariz. // Sun Angel Stadium national champions in Diamond Dixon (400m) and Andrea Geubelle (triple jump). Geubelle went on to win the triple jump title again in 2013, as well as the long jump crown, KANSAS RELAYS and Natalia Bartnovskaya joined her with a championship April 18-21 // Lawrence, Kan. // Rock Chalk Park in the pole vault. The three titles in 2013 were the last for KU women at the indoor championships. NATIONAL RELAY CHAMPIONSHIPS April 27-28 // Fayetteville, Ark. // John McDonnell Field KANSAS WOMEN NO. 24 IN PRE-CHAMPIONSHIP POLL The Kansas women’s track & field team is ranked No. WARD HAYLETT INVITATIONAL 24 in the pre-championship U.S. Track & Field and May 5 // Manhattan, Kan. // R.V. Christian Track Complex Cross Country Coaches Association poll, released by the organization on Sunday, March 4. BIG 12 OUTDOOR CHAMPIONSHIP May 11-13 // Waco, Texas // Clyde Hart Track & Field Stadium The No. 24 ranking for the Jayhawk women is one spot lower than last week’s position, with this week’s poll reflecting the entries in the 2018 NCAA Division I Indoor NCAA WEST PRELIMINARY ROUND Track & Field Championships. May 24-25 // Sacramento, Calif. // Hornet Stadium The Kansas men ranked No. 30 in the most recent NCAA OUTDOOR CHAMPIONSHIPS USTFCCCA poll and will be represented in five events at June 6-9 // Eugene, Ore. // Hayward Field the NCAA Indoor Championships in College Station.

/KUTrackandField @KUtrack @KUtrack #KUtrack 2018 KANSAS TRACK & FIELD MEET NOTES • 2 QUICK FACTS NOTEWORTHY GENERAL INFORMATION HUSSAIN AL HIZAM - POLE VAULT Location Lawrence, Kan. Junior Hussain Al Hizam is making his first appearance at the NCAA Indoor Championships and just his second appearance at School Founded 1866 an NCAA championship event, after finishing third at the 2017 Outdoor Championships in the pole vault. Enrollment 28,401 Al Hizam enters this weekend’s meet as the No. 7-seeded competitor in the event, having cleared an indoor personal record Nickname Jayhawks of 5.53 meters (18-1.75 ft.) at the Tyson Invitational (Feb 9-10). School Colors Crimson and Blue Conference Big 12 The Jubail, Saudi Arabia product will look to continue a long line of success for Kansas men’s vaulters at the indoor national Chancellor Douglas A. Girod meet and will try to win the second indoor national title in the event for the Kansas men and earn the 23rd First Team All- Director of Athletics Dr. Sheahon Zenger America honor. Assoc. AD/Sport Admin. Doug Banks Athletics Website www.kuathletics.com Last year at the NCAA Indoor Championships, the Jayhawks were represented well in the men’s vault, with three athletes Ticket Office Phone (800) 34-HAWKS (42957) qualifying. Jake Albright, Nick Maestretti and Paulo Benavides finished 11th, 14th and 15th, respectively, to each earn Second Team All-America honors.

HOME FACILITIES BRYCE HOPPEL - 800 METERS Indoor Facility Anschutz Sports Pavilion Sophomore Bryce Hoppel will be competing at his first NCAA Indoor Championship, running in the 800 meters. Hoppel will run Year Opened 1984 at 7:15 p.m. CST on March 9 in the preliminary round. If he qualifies for the final, he will run again on March 10 at 5:30 p.m. Track Surface Beynon BSS 2000 Outdoor Facility Rock Chalk Park The Kansas men have never had an indoor national champion in the 800 meters and have earned just two All-America honors Year Opened 2014 in the 800 meters and 880 yards. Capacity 7,000 Kansas legend Jim Ryun earned All-America status in the 880-yard run in 1967 and Jeremy Mims, the Kansas indoor record Track Surface Beynon BSS 2000 holder in the 800 meters, finished seventh in the race at the 2005 national championships to earn First Team All-America honors. COACHING STAFF Head Coach Stanley Redwine NICOLAI CEBAN - SHOT PUT Alma Mater Arkansas, 1985 Senior Nicolai Ceban qualified for his third-straight NCAA Indoor Championships in the shot put and hopes to turn in his best Year at KU 18th national finish in the final indoor meet of his Kansas career. Ceban finished seventh to earn First Team All-America honors last Year Coaching 24th season and turned in a Second Team All-America performance with a 15th-place finish in 2016. Assoc. HC/Vertical Jumps Tom Hays Ceban is the 16th-seeded thrower in the event but has only thrown in three meets this season. He recorded his season-best Alma Mater Kansas, 1989 mark at the Big 12 Championships with a second-place throw of 19.30 meters (63-4 ft.). Sprints/Hurdles Elisha Brewer Alma Mater Arkansas, 1998 The Jayhawk men’s program has three indoor national titles in the shot put, all won by Karl Salb (1969, 1970, 1971), and 14 Throws Andy Kokhanovsky First Team All-America honors. Alma Mater Abilene Christian, 1998 Horizontal Jumps/Combined Events Wayne Pate SHARON LOKEDI - 3,000 AND 5,000 METERS Alma Mater Indiana, 1981 After utilizing her redshirt year during the 2017 indoor season, junior Sharon Lokedi didn’t miss a beat, qualifying in two Middle Distance/Distance Michael Whittlesey individual events and as a member of the women’s distance medley relay team for the 2018 NCAA Indoor Championships. Alma Mater Connecticut, 1990 Lokedi will compete in the 3,000 and 5,000-meter runs at the national meet and will look to earn her second and third All- America honors, after earning a First Team All-America nod in 2016 by finishing sixth in the 5,000 meters. Lokedi’s All-America MEN’S 2017 IN REVIEW honor is the only one in either event in the history of the Kansas women’s program. Big 12 Finish (Indoor/Outdoor) 2nd/2nd Individual Champions 4/4 The Eldoret, native is coming off Big 12 titles in both events and has broken the school record in each this season. NCAA Finish (Indoor/Outdoor) 27th/11th Her 5,000-meter school record came in her first race of the season at the Boston University Season Opener (Dec. 2). Lokedi National Champions 0/0 clocked a time of 15:39.05 to break her own school record in the event. She later went on to break the 3,000-meter record at First Team All-Americans 3/4 the Iowa State Classic (Feb. 9-10), shaving 17 seconds off the previous record with a time of 8:59.69. Lokedi is seeded No. 6 in the 5,000 meters and No. 7 in the 3,000 at the national championship meet. WOMEN’S 2017 IN REVIEW Big 12 Finish (Indoor/Outdoor) 5th/5th WOMEN’S DISTANCE MEDLEY RELAY Individual Champions 0/3 The Kansas women’s distance medley relay team of Courtney Coppinger, Nicole Montgomery, Hannah Dimmick and Sharon NCAA Finish (Indoor/Outdoor) 52nd/18th Lokedi qualified for the NCAA Indoor Championships as the No. 9-seeded team by breaking the Kansas women’s indoor record National Champions 0/0 in the event at the Alex Wilson Invitational (Feb. 17). The quartet finished in 11:01.19 to break the one-year-old school record. First Team All-Americans 1/2 Three Kansas women’s distance medley relay teams have earned First Team All-America honors previously. The first came in 1996 when Kerri Woolheater, Latanya Holloway, Kristi Kloster and Melissa Swartz finished seventh at the national meet. COMMUNICATIONS The highest finish for the Kansas women’s DMR came in 2010, with Rebeka Stowe, Taylor Washington, Cori Christensen and Primary Contact Josh Carson Lauren Bonds finishing sixth. Last year’s DMR team of Whitney Adams, Riley Cooney, Montgomery and Hannah Richardson that Office Phone (785) 864-7979 held the school record prior to this year’s team, finished seventh at the 2017 Indoor Championships. Cell Phone (785) 312-1700 Email [email protected] LAURA TAYLOR - POLE VAULT Office Manager (Credentials) Erin Penning Laura Taylor is chasing the third NCAA Indoor Championship and the ninth First Team All-America honor in the women’s Office Phone (785) 864-3417 pole vault in Kansas history. Amy Linnen (2005) and Natalia Bartnovskaya (2013) are the only Kansas women to win the title Email [email protected] previously. Assoc. AD/Exec. Dir of Branding Todd Kober Taylor enters the meet as the No. 7-seeded competitor in the event and is the only Kansas women’s field athlete to qualify for Office Phone (785) 864-7867 the national meet. The Tualatin, Oregon native qualified for the championships with a season-best and personal record mark Email [email protected] of 4.38 meters (14-4.5 ft.) at the Rod McCravy Memorial (Feb. 3), which made her the No. 2 performer in Kansas women’s Website KUAthletics.com indoor history. Twitter @KUtrack Facebook /KUTrackandField BARDEN ADAMS - TRIPLE JUMP Instagram @KUtrack Senior Barden Adams returns to the NCAA Indoor Championships after last season’s fifth place finish in the triple jump. Adams hopes to earn his second First Team Indoor All-America honor and the sixth in Kansas men’s history in the event. Ranked as the No. 15 athlete in the event, Adams will look to upset the field and win just the second men’s indoor triple jump title in Kansas history, the first coming in 1980 by Sanya Owolabi.

MEN’S 4x400-METER RELAY Three-fourths of last year’s Second Team All-America Kansas men’s 4x400-meter relay team is back at the NCAA Championships in search of a First Team All-America bid. Tre Daniels, Jaron Hartley and Ivan Henry teamed up with Strymar Livingston last season for an 11th place finish at the indoor nationals and are joined by Isaiah Cole this year on the hunt for more. This year’s squad qualified for nationals with a time of 3:06.76.

/KUTrackandField @KUtrack @KUtrack #KUtrack 2018 KANSAS TRACK & FIELD MEET NOTES • 3 NOTEWORTHY USTFCCCA WOMEN’S 4x400-METER RELAY This season marks the first time since 2013 that the Kansas women’s 4x400-meter relay team qualified for the NCAA Indoor RANKINGS Championships. The 4x400 team of Honour Finley, Mariah Kuykendoll, Megan Linder and Nicole Montgomery hope to pick up MEN’S WEEK 7 POLL (MARCH 4) a First Team All-America nod like the 2013 team did by finishing eighth. RK. SCHOOL POINTS PREV. 1 Texas Tech 130.74 1 This year’s team qualified for the national meet with a time of 3:33.53 at the Alex Wilson Invitational (Feb. 17). 2 102.50 5 3 Florida 100.79 2 WOMEN’S DMR BREAKS SCHOOL RECORD 4 Arkansas 97.28 3 For the second time in as many years, the Kansas women’s distance medley relay school record time was broken at the Alex Wilson Invitational in South Bend, Indiana. The 2018 DMR squad of Courtney Coppinger, Nicole Montgomery, Hannah Dimmick 5 Southern California 91.66 4 and Sharon Lokedi clocked a time of 11:01.19 to edge the record set in 2017 by Montgomery, Riley Cooney, Whitney Adams 6 Texas A&M 85.94 6 and Hannah Richardson by .66 seconds. 7 Florida State 82.66 7 8 Alabama 73.31 8 LIVING LEGEND SHARON LOKEDI 9 Ohio State 66.98 10 Kansas junior Sharon Lokedi has had an illustrious career that includes numerous awards and records, and things haven’t 10 Houston 65.47 11 changed in her third indoor season. Lokedi has broken two individual school records this year and been a part of a school 11 TCU 64.15 13 record-breaking relay team. 12 Virginia Tech 60.39 9 Lokedi utilized her redshirt year last indoor season but showed no signs of rust in her first indoor meet back, breaking her own 13 Syracuse 59.11 12 school record in the 5,000-meter run at the Boston University Season Opener. Her record time of 15:39.05 ranked No. 4 in the 14 Penn State 53.89 14 NCAA at the time and currently stands as the sixth-fastest time this season. 15 South Carolina 51.58 15 16 Oregon 50.04 17 On top of her record 5,000-meter run, Lokedi broke the school record in the 3,000 meters at the Iowa State Classic, shaving 17 Kentucky 46.54 18 17 seconds off the previous record by finishing the race in 8:59.69, which currently ranks No. 8 in the NCAA. 18 New 45.27 20 19 Texas 45.21 16 To polish off her record-breaking year, Lokedi helped the DMR team clock a 11:01.19 at the Alex Wilson Invitational to break 20 Clemson 45.14 19 a one-year old school record and record the fifth-fastest time in the NCAA. 21 Southern Utah 44.95 21 At the Big 12 Indoor Championship, Lokedi posted conference titles in both the 5,000 and 3,000 meters, her second and third 22 UTEP 44.74 23 league indoor crowns in her career. 23 Colorado State 44.24 28 24 Stanford 38.73 24 SEVEN EVENTS, SEVEN VICTORIES 25 Auburn 35.74 27 Kansas sophomore Bryce Hoppel has competed in seven individual events this indoor season and has yet to be defeated. 26 Wisconsin 33.82 26 Hoppel opened his season at the KU-KSU-WSU Triangular with wins in the 800 meters and mile run, before repeating the 27 Indiana 33.74 25 accomplishment a week later at the Mark Colligan Memorial in the same events. 28 Illinois State 33.51 30 Hoppel also posted a win in the 800 meters at the Rod McCravy Memorial, and most recently the Midland, Texas product won 29 Michigan 33.07 29 the 800 meters at the Iowa State Classic, where he clocked the second-fastest time in Kansas men’s indoor history in the 30 KANSAS 33.00 32 event at 1:47.09. WOMEN’S WEEK 7 POLL (MARCH 4) Most recently, Hoppel won the men’s 800-meter title at the Big 12 Indoor Championships, running away from the field and RK. SCHOOL POINTS PREV. winning by over a second, clocking in at 1:47.20, the third-fastest time recorded in Kansas men’s indoor history. 1 Georgia 183.12 1 2 Arkansas 156.04 2 UP NEXT 3 Kentucky 142.23 3 The Jayhawks will start the 2018 outdoor season on March 24 at the Arkansas Spring Invitational, hosted by the University of Arkansas on March 24. Action is slated to begin at 1 p.m. at John McDonnell Field in Fayetteville, Arkansas. 4 LSU 130.76 4 5 Southern California 128.06 5 6 Florida 100.13 7 7 Oregon 99.09 6 8 New Mexico 84.50 8 9 Stanford 80.05 9 MEDIA INFORMATION 10 Texas A&M 59.68 10 WEEKLY PRESS RELEASE 11 Minnesota 56.24 12 Weekly press releases, including updated individual and team stats, performance sheets, as well as information on upcoming meets will be 12 Virginia Tech 54.56 11 made available prior to the team’s next meet. The releases are available in PDF format via email. To be included on the e-mail list, please contact 13 Boise State 54.36 14 Josh Carson at [email protected]. The releases will also be available on the KU Athletics web site in PDF format. 14 Missouri 50.51 13 15 New Hampshire 45.65 34 INTERVIEWS All interviews with student-athletes and coaches should be arranged through communications contact Josh Carson (785-864-7979). Please give 16 Colorado 44.44 19 at least 24 hours notice. Phone interviews will be done on a call-back basis only when convenient to the athlete or coach. Student-athletes will 17 Mississippi State 42.20 27 be made available to media 30 minutes following their event’s completion and can be found at the media mix zone if provided at the meet. Please 18 Purdue 41.60 15 contact Josh Carson to organize the time and location of the interview if no formal media mix zone is available. Head coach Stanley Redwine will 19 Tennessee 41.43 16 be available following completion of the meet. To request an interview contact Josh Carson. Phone interviews will also be permissible following 20 Clemson 40.62 17 home meets and will be conducted on a call-back basis for all student-athletes and coaches. Please call or email Josh Carson at least 12 hours 21 Auburn 39.75 21 prior to request post-meet interviews. 22 Arizona State 39.72 24 23 Cincinnati 39.29 20 CREDENTIALS Credentials will be required for all indoor and outdoor home meets for the Jayhawks this season. To request credentials please contact track & 24 KANSAS 38.80 23 field media contact, Josh Carson, at least three days prior to the meet. 25 Florida State 38.60 22 26 Louisville 37.28 25 GETTING TO ROCK CHALK PARK 27 Ole Miss 35.88 26 All home outdoor meets will be held at Rock Chalk Park, located in West Lawrence near the intersection of W 6th Street and George Williams 28 Ohio State 33.87 28 Way. From North Kansas City, take I-70 West to KS-10 exit 197. After the toll, turn left (south) on to KS-10/S Lawrence Trafficway and drive for 29 Iowa State 32.16 29 approximately two miles. Take the US-40 ramp to Lawrence/Topeka and turn left onto US-40 E/W 6th St and drive for approximately .5 miles. 30 Akron 32.00 30 Turn left onto George Williams Way and drive until Rock Chalk Park is visible on the left.

WIRELESS INTERNET Complimentary access to wireless internet is available at Anschutz Pavilion and Rock Chalk Park. Information about how to access it will be available at the designated media areas at either facility.

/KUTrackandField @KUtrack @KUtrack #KUtrack 2018 KANSAS TRACK & FIELD MEET NOTES • 4 MEN’S ROSTER EVENT NAME EVENT IN OUT HOMETOWN / HIGH SCHOOL (PREVIOUS SCHOOL) Barden Adams Horizontal Jumps Sr. Sr. West Orange, N.J. / West Orange HS ROSTER Hussain Al Hizam Pole Vault Jr. Jr. Jubail, Saudi Arabia / Kaab bin Malek DISTANCE Matt Anyiwo Middle Distance Sr. Sr. Flossmoor, Ill. / Homewood-Flossmoor HS NAME IN OUT Paulo Benavides Pole Vault Jr. Jr. El Paso, Texas / El Paso Franklin HS Ben Burchstead Jr. Sr. Ben Burchstead Distance Jr. Sr. Overland Park, Kan. / Shawnee Mission North HS Ethan Donley So. Fr. Nicolai Ceban Throws Sr. Sr. Camenca, / Liceul Teoretic Alexei Mateevici Quanah Gardiner Fr. Fr. Isaiah Cole Middle Distance So. So. Hazelwood, Mo. / Hazelwood West HS Avery Hale So. So. Quentin Dancer Sprints So. So. West, Texas / West HS Chace Hale Fr. Fr. Tre Daniels Middle Distance Sr. Sr. Manhattan, Kan. / Manhattan HS Dylan Hodgson Jr. Jr. Marcus Davis Sprints Jr. Sr. Florissant, Mo. / Hazelwood Central HS (Iowa Western CC) Bryce Hoppel So. So. Ethan Donley Distance So. Fr. Lawrence, Kan. / Lawrence Free State HS George Letner So. So. Gleb Dudarev Throws So. So. Vitebsk, / Vitebsk State College John Luder Fr. Fr. George Evans Throws Fr. Fr. Inverness, Scotland / Strathallan School Jack McDonald Sr. Jr. Quanah Gardiner Distance Fr. Fr. Ashland, Kan. / Ashland HS Chris Melgares Jr. Sr. Nick Giusti Hurdles Sr. Sr. Wichita, Kan. / Bishop Carroll Catholic HS Michael Melgares So. So. Chris Gleghorn Horizontal Jumps So. So. Maryland Heights, Mo. / Pattonville HS Marcus Quere So. So. Jacob Goldberg Middle Distance Sr. Jr. Milwaukee, Wis. / Shorewood HS (Oklahoma) Jack Young Fr. Fr. Mitch Grosserode Middle Distance So. So. Lincoln, Neb. / Lincoln Pius X HS Avery Hale Distance So So. New Town, N.D. / New Town HS HIGH JUMP Chace Hale Distance Fr. Fr. New Town, N.D. / New Town HS NAME IN OUT Jaron Hartley Sprints Sr. Sr. Houston, Texas / Houston Westside HS Joel Long Jr. Jr. Ivan Henry Sprints Jr. Jr. St. Catherine, / St. Jago HS Joshua Washington Jr. Jr. Christian Hicks Hurdles Sr. Sr. Derby, Kan. / Derby HS Dylan Hodgson Distance Jr. Jr. Washington, Kan. / Washington County HS HORIZONTAL JUMPS Bryce Hoppel Distance So. So. Midland, Texas / Midland Senior HS NAME IN OUT Cody Johnson Hurdles So. So. El Paso, Texas / El Paso Franklin HS Barden Adams Sr. Sr. Braden Kleinschmidt Horizontal Jumps Jr. So. Lincoln, Neb. / Lincoln East HS Chris Gleghorn So. So. George Letner Distance So. So. Baldwin City, Kan. / Baldwin HS Braden Kleinschmidt Jr. So. Brandon Lombardino Throws Sr. Sr. Round Lake, Ill. / Grant Community HS (Arkansas State) Ezekiel Welch Sr. Sr. Joel Long High Jump Jr. Jr. Topeka, Kan. / Topeka HS John Luder Distance Fr. Fr. Shawnee, Kan. / Rockhurst HS HURDLES Jack McDonald Distance Sr. Jr. Fairway, Kan. / Shawnee Mission East HS NAME IN OUT Connor McMullen Throws Jr. So. Bucyrus, Kan. / Louisburg HS Nick Giusti Sr. Sr. Chris Melgares Distance Jr. Sr. Manhattan, Kan. / Manhattan HS Christian Hicks Sr. Sr. Michael Melgares Distance So. So. Manhattan, Kan. / Manhattan HS Cody Johnson So. So. Nick Meyer Pole Vault Sr. Sr. Kingman, Kan. / Bishop Carroll HS David-Marquis Patrick Fr. Fr. David-Marquis Patrick Hurdles Fr. Fr. Austin, Texas / Lake Travis HS Javan Reece Fr. Fr. Chase Pennewell Pole Vault So. So. Monroe City, Mo. / Monroe City HS Darius Releford Fr. Fr. Marcus Quere Distance So. So. Loveland, Colo. / Loveland HS Javan Reece Hurdles Fr. Fr. Lantana, Texas / Guyer HS MIDDLE DISTANCE Darius Releford Hurdles Fr. Fr. Edmond, Okla. / Edmond Memorial HS NAME IN OUT Kyle Rogers Pole Vault Fr. Fr. Liberty, Mo. / Liberty HS Matt Anyiwo Sr. Sr. Lucas Shaw Pole Vault Sr. Sr. Topeka, Kan. / Seaman HS Isaiah Cole So. So. Aaron Thacker Middle Distance Sr. Sr. Olathe, Kan. / Olathe South HS (Johnson County CC) Tre Daniels Sr. Sr. Joshua Washington High Jump Jr. Jr. Leawood, Kan. / Blue Valley HS (Johnson County CC) Jacob Goldberg Sr. Jr. Ezekiel Welch Horizontal Jumps Sr. Sr. Wichita, Kan. / Maize HS Mitch Grosserode So. So. Jack Young Distance Fr. Fr. Mission Hills, Kan. / Shawnee Mission East HS Aaron Thacker Sr. Sr. POLE VAULT NAME IN OUT Hussain Al Hizam Jr. Jr. Paulo Benevides Jr. Jr. PRONUNCIATIONS Nick Meyer Sr. Sr. Matt ANYIWO UH-new-OH Braden KLEINSCHMIDT KLINE-shmit Chase Pennewell So. So. Paulo BENAVIDES BEN-uh-VEE-dez Brandon LOMBARDINO LOM-bar-DEEN-oh Kyle Rogers Fr. Fr. Nicolai CEBAN SEE-bahn Chris MELGARES mel-GAIR-ez Lucas Shaw Sr. Sr. Gleb DUDAREV DOO-duh-rev Michael MELGARES mel-GAIR-ez QUAN-uh GARD-in-ER David- Patrick mar-KEES QUANAH GARDINER MARQUIS SPRINTS Nick GEE-ew-stee Chase PEN-uh-well GIUSTI PENNEWELL NAME IN OUT Mitch GROSSERODE GRAH-suh-rohd Marcus QUERE KWER-ay Quentin Dancer So. So. Bryce HOPPEL HOP-ull Marcus Davis Jr. Sr. Jaron Hartley Sr. Sr. Ivan Henry Jr. Jr.

THROWS NAME IN OUT Nicolai Ceban Sr. Sr. Gleb Dudarev So. So. George Evans Fr. Fr. Brandon Lombardino Sr. Sr. Connor McMullen Jr. So.

/KUTrackandField @KUtrack @KUtrack #KUtrack 2018 KANSAS TRACK & FIELD MEET NOTES • 5 WOMEN’S ROSTER EVENT NAME EVENT IN OUT HOMETOWN / HIGH SCHOOL (PREVIOUS SCHOOL) Chloe Akin-Otiko Sprints So. Fr. Bellevue, Neb. / Bellevue West HS ROSTER Alexys Barton Distance Fr. Fr. Liberal, Mo. / Liberal HS COMBINED EVENTS NAME IN OUT Khristen Bryant Pole Vault/Hurdles Fr. Fr. Columbia, Mo. / Columbia Independent HS Teri Huslig Jr. Jr. Jedah Caldwell Sprints So. So. Chanhassen, Minn. / Chanhassen HS Lea Riedel Fr. Fr. Rachel Clowers Throws So. So. Pleasant Hill, Ill. / Pleasant Hill HS Daria Cook Hurdles Sr. Jr. Fairfield, Calif. / Vacaville HS DISTANCE Riley Cooney Distance Jr. Jr. Loveland, Colo. / Mountain View HS NAME IN OUT Courtney Coppinger Distance Sr. Sr. Mission Hills, Kan. / St. Teresa’s Academy Alexys Barton Fr. Fr. Gabbi Dabney Hurdles Jr. So. Lawrence, Kan. / Lawrence Free State HS Riley Cooney Jr. Jr. Dorie Dalzell Middle Distance Sr. Jr. Sammamish, Wash. / Skyline HS Courtney Coppinger Sr. Sr. Zantori Dickerson Middle Distance So. So. Judson, Texas / Converse Judson HS Hannah Dimmick Sr. Sr. Hannah Dimmick Distance Sr. Sr. McLean, Va. / McLean HS Carly Flake Fr. Fr. Adia Eberle High Jump Fr. Fr. Freeman, Mo. / Midway HS Cameron Gueldner Fr. So. Alexandra Emilianov Throws Fr. Fr. Chisinau, Moldova / Liceul Natalia Gheorghiu Lauren Harrell Jr. So. Marleena Eubanks Middle Distance Jr. Jr. Kingston, Jamaica / Edwin Allen HS (Central Arizona College) Talley Hill Fr. Fr. Honour Finley Middle Distance Fr. Fr. Bloomington, Minn. / John F. Kennedy HS Lisa Lauschke So. So. Carly Flake Distance Fr. Fr. Andover, Kan. / Andover HS Catherine Liggett Fr. Fr. Courtney Griffiths Middle Distance Jr. Jr. Arkansas City, Kan. / Winfield HS (Cowley College) Sharon Lokedi Jr. Sr. Morgan Griffiths Pole Vault Jr. Jr. St. Charles, Mo. / St. Charles West HS Megan Paule Jr. Jr. Cameron Gueldner Distance Fr. So. Olathe, Kan. / Olathe Northwest HS Alaina Schroeder Jr. Jr. Lauren Harrell Distance Jr. So. Shawnee, Kan. / Maranatha Academy (Azusa Pacific) Emmie Skopec So. Jr. Callie Hicks Pole Vault So. So. Lawrence, Kan. / Lawrence Free State HS Talley Hill Distance Fr. Fr. Arroyo Grande, Calif. / Arroyo Grande HS HIGH JUMP Teri Huslig Combined Events Jr. Jr. Lawrence, Kan. / Veritas Christian School NAME IN OUT LaTyria Jefferson High Jump Jr. Jr. Desoto, Texas / Desoto HS Adia Eberle Fr. Fr. Mariah Kuykendoll Middle Distance So. So. Judson, Texas / Converse Judson HS LaTyria Jefferson Jr. Jr. Lisa Lauschke Distance So. So. Rogers, Ark. / Rogers HS Caraline Slattery Jr. So. Catherine Liggett Distance Fr. Fr. Parker, Colo. / Legend HS Megan Linder Sprints Sr. Sr. Eagan, Minn. / Cretin-Derham Hall HS (Tennessee) HORIZONTAL JUMPS Sharon Lokedi Distance Jr. Sr. Eldoret, Kenya / Kapkenda Girls’ HS NAME IN OUT Shalei Matthews Horizontal Jumps Jr. Jr. Independence, Kan. / Independence HS (Coffeyville CC) Shalei Matthews Jr. Jr. Nicole Montgomery Sprints Jr. Jr. Colorado Springs, Colo. / Lewis-Palmer HS Taryn Tempel Sr. Sr. Morganne Mukes Sprints Fr. Fr. Edmond, Okla. / Edmond Memorial HS Wumi Omare Middle Distance Jr. Jr. Overland Park, Kan. / Blue Valley North HS HURDLES Megan Paule Distance Jr. Jr. Overland Park, Kan. / Blue Valley Southwest HS (Creighton) NAME IN OUT Lea Riedel Combined Events Fr. Fr. Esslingen, / Wirtemberg Gymnasium Khristen Bryant Fr. Fr. Alexis Romero Pole Vault Jr. Jr. Reno, Nev. / Wooster HS Daria Cook Sr. Jr. Gabbi Dabney Jr. So. Zainab Sanni Sprints Sr. Sr. Aurora, Colo. / Smoky Hill HS Caraline Slattery Jr. So. Alaina Schroeder Distance Jr. Jr. Manhattan, Kan. / Manhattan HS Anna Siemens Middle Distance Fr. Fr. Rogers, Ark. / Providence Academy MIDDLE DISTANCE Emmie Skopec Distance So. Jr. Iowa City, Iowa / West HS NAME IN OUT Caraline Slattery High Jump/Hurdles Jr. So. Lakeville, Minn. / Lakeville South HS Dorie Dalzell Sr. Jr. Shaylyn Stallbaumer Throws So. Jr. Seneca, Kan. / Nemaha Central HS Zantori Dickerson So. So. Bailee Swift Javelin Fr. Fr. Cottonwood Falls, Kan. / Chase County HS Marleena Eubanks Jr. Jr. Laura Taylor Pole Vault Sr. Sr. Tualatin, Ore. / Tualatin HS Honour Finley Fr. Fr. Taryn Tempel Horizontal Jumps Sr. Sr. Garden City, Kan. / Garden City HS Courtney Griffiths Jr. Jr. Allie Twietmeyer Throws So. So. Cheney, Kan. / Cheney HS Mariah Kuykendoll So. So. Andrea Willis Pole Vault So. So. Colorado Springs, Colo. / Classical Academy` Wumi Omare Jr. Jr. Anna Siemens Fr. Fr.

POLE VAULT NAME IN OUT PRONUNCIATIONS Khristen Bryant Fr. Fr. Chloe AKIN-OTIKO ACKIN-OH-tee-ko Catherine LIGGETT LIG-it Morgan Griffiths Jr. Jr. DARIA Cook DARE-ee-uh SHALEI Matthews SAY-lee Callie Hicks So. So. Courtney COPPINGER COP-in-JER WUMI OMARE WOO-me OH-mar-EE Alexis Romero Jr. Jr. ZANTORI Dickerson ZAN-tore-EE ZAINAB SANNI ZIE-nab SAHN-ee Laura Taylor Sr. Sr. Teri HUSLIG HUE-slig Alaina SCHROEDER SHRAY-der Andrea Willis So. So. LaTYRIA Jefferson luh-TAR-ee-uh CARALINE Slattery CARE-uh-LINE Mariah KUYKENDOLL KER-ken-DOLL ANDREA Willis ON-dree-UH SPRINTS Lisa LAUSCHKE LOSH-key NAME IN OUT Chloe Akin-Otiko So. Fr. Jedah Caldwell So. So. Megan Linder Sr. Sr. Nicole Montgomery Jr. Jr. Morganne Mukes Fr. Fr. Zainab Sanni - Sr.

THROWS NAME IN OUT Rachel Clowers So. So. Alexandra Emilianov Shaylyn Stallbaumer So. Jr. Bailee Swift Fr. Fr. Allie Twietmeyer So. So.

/KUTrackandField @KUtrack @KUtrack #KUtrack 2018 KANSAS TRACK & FIELD MEET NOTES • 6 STANLEY REDWINE HEAD COACH A former All-American himself at the University of Arkansas, Redwine has seen his Jayhawk athletes earn 240 All-America honors, win 113 Big 12 individual titles, 16 individual national champions and two team Big 12 titles. After the historical season for the 2012-13 women’s track & field team that won the first women’s National Championship in Kansas history, Redwine was named the NCAA’s Women’s Head Coach of the Year for the first time in his career.

Redwine, a three-time Big 12 Coach of the Year, has coached 17 individual National Champions (16 at Kansas), 196 All- Americans (185 at KU), eight Olympians (all at KU) and 23 National Championship teams between his years as head coach at Kansas and Tulsa and an assistant coach at Arkansas. The last five seasons marked perhaps the most successful stretch in Redwine’s Kansas coaching career, mentoring the women’s track & field team to numerous individual accolades with the most notable being the program’s first NCAA team championship in 2013. In 2016, he helped the men’s team to its highest conference finish in over 30 years when the squad claimed a runner-up finish at the Big 12 Outdoor Championship, and followed that up with second place finishes at both the indoor and outdoor conference meet for the men’s team in 2017. Redwine led the Kansas men to an 11th-place finish at the NCAA Outdoor Championships last season, the highest finished by the Jayhawk men since a seventh-place finish in 2010. Four-time All-American Michael Stigler became the 16th athlete to earn an individual national title under Redwine at Kansas by winning the 400-meter hurdle championship in 2015.

Redwine coached 20 different athletes to one-or-more All-America honors in 2017 alone, and guided his athletes to 11 total Big 12 event titles. For his efforts at the helm of the Jayhawks in 2017, Redwine was named the USTFCCCA Midwest Region’s Men’s Head Coach of the Year.

The 2013 season marked a historic year for the women’s program. In addition to the NCAA Outdoor title, the Jayhawks claimed REDWINE both the indoor and outdoor league titles and Redwine saw his athletes earn first team All-America honors 27 times during the FILE indoor and outdoor campaigns. Lindsay Vollmer became Kansas’ first female NCAA Champion with her win in the heptathlon PERSONAL while Andrea Geubelle and Natalia Bartnovskaya both tallied national titles at the NCAA Indoor meet. Alma Mater Arkansas, 1985 Season at Kansas 18th Redwine pupil Diamond Dixon not only claimed a national championship, four conference titles and four more All-American Season Coaching 23rd honors in 2012, but also won a gold medal at the Olympics in London as part of the 4x400-meter relay team. Wife Jacque In 2010, Redwine mentored eight athletes to 10 All-America honors with five garnering the elite status during the indoor Children Crysta, Stanley Jr., Alexa season and five more picking up the honor during the outdoor season. Behind NCAA Champion Jordan Scott’s performance, the KU men’s team finished seventh at the 2010 NCAA Outdoor Championships. Scott claimed the pole vault title for the first COACHING HISTORY time in his career, while freshman thrower Mason Finley took home second place in both the shot put and discus at the NCAA Head Coach, Kansas 2000-Present Outdoor meet and also earned Indoor honors in the shot put. The KU women’s distance medley relay team earned All-America Head Coach, Tulsa 1994-2000 status at the NCAA Indoor Championships, while Lauren Bonds (1,500 meters), Andrea Geubelle (long jump) and Eric Fattig Assistant Coach, Arkansas 1985-94 (triple jump) each were All-Americans during the outdoor season. In 2008, Redwine coached 12 track & field All-Americans, which was then the most he had coached in one season in his time ATHLETIC HISTORY at Kansas. • Four-time All-American (800 Meters) • Six-Time conference champion In the summer of 2008 in Beijing, , Redwine athletes Scott Russell and Nickesha Anderson represented their respective • Two-time U.S. 800-meter champion countries in the Games of the XXIX (29th) Olympiad. Russell finished in 10th place for in the men’s javelin, while • 800M silver medalist (1986, 1994 ) Anderson was an alternate on Jamaica’s women’s 4x100-meter relay team. • Five-time World Championship team member • Five-time competitor at U.S. Olympic Trials He oversaw Egor Agafonov to his second-consecutive National Championship in the weight throw, as well as his fifth and sixth All-America honors (weight throw, hammer throw) and his third-consecutive Big 12 Championship, in both the hammer throw and the weight throw. In the 2008 indoor track & field season, Kansas was just one of 10 schools to have both its men’s and women’s teams finish in the top 25 at the NCAA Championships. At the NCAA Outdoor Championships, senior Crystal Manning (long jump and triple jump) and junior Nickesha Anderson (100 meters and 200 meters) each won two All-America honors. Only one other woman (Candace Mason) had previously accomplished the feat in KU history. As an athlete, Redwine placed his name in the Arkansas history books as a 400-meter, 600-yard and 800-meter runner from 1980-83. Redwine was a four-time All-American and was named UA’s Outstanding Track Athlete all four of his years in Fayetteville. Redwine went on to spend nine years as an assistant coach at his alma mater. During his tenure, the Razorbacks captured nine consecutive NCAA Championships and 22 titles from 1985 to 1994 in both track & field and cross country. He helped produce 14 All-Americans and two NCAA Champions in the hurdle and sprint events. Among those All-Americans were two-time 400-meter NCAA indoor and outdoor champion Calvin Davis, three-time 400-meter and 500-meter NCAA champion Robbie Haley and seven-time All-American sprinter Jimmy French. His success as an assistant earned him the head coaching position at the University of Tulsa in 1994. In six years at Tulsa, Redwine’s athletes broke more than 70 school records, most on multiple occasions. He produced 11 NCAA qualifiers and Tulsa’s first-ever All-American. On May 25, 2000, Redwine was rewarded for his efforts by being hired as the head coach at the University of Kansas. The Jayhawks’ track & field program has prospered ever since, as he has restored the tradition of KU’s illustrious past. Professionally, Redwine retired from competition in 1996 after he finished fifth in the 800-meter run at the U.S. Olympic Trials in Atlanta, Georgia. He was a U.S. Olympic Trial qualifier five-straight times from 1980 to 1996 and was a two-time silver medalist in the 800-meter run at the Goodwill Games in 1986 and 1994. He won bronze medals at the Pan American Games in 1983 and 1987. Redwine was also a World Championship team member in 1985, 1987, 1989, 1991 and 1993 and a two-time U.S. 800-meter champion. Redwine earned his bachelor’s degree in administrative management from the University of Arkansas in 1985. He and his wife, Jacqueline, have three children; Crysta, Stanley Jr., and Alexa.

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BIG 12 BIG 12 NCAA NCAA BIG 12 BIG 12 NCAA NCAA YEAR INDOOR OUTDOOR INDOOR OUTDOOR YEAR INDOOR OUTDOOR INDOOR OUTDOOR 2001 9 11 8 39T 2001 9 11 - 30T 2002 7 4 8 21T 2002 6 8 - - 2003 9 9 21T 24T 2003 4 6 - - 2004 9 12 24T - 2004 7 10 - - 2005 8 4 40T 25T 2005 7 6 21T 29T 2006 6 9 16 30T 2006 9 8 45 64T 2007 7 6 16 18 2007 6 5 34 35 2008 10 9 22T 38T 2008 3 4 10T 15T 2009 11 12 33 - 2009 9 10 - - 2010 10 8 23T 7 2010 5 7 27T 51T 2011 8 6 26T 18 2011 7T 7 30T 23T 2012 10 8 - 23T 2012 3 2 2 4T 2013 6 5 - 28T 2013 1 1 2 1 2014 8 7 - 33 2014 3 4 39 42 2015 6 5 62T 19T 2015 6 4 - 32T 2016 6 2 - - 2016 5 4 21T 52T 2017 2 2 27 11 2017 5 5 52 18th 2018 5 2018 2

ASSISTANT COACHES TOM HAYS ELISHA BREWER Kansas, 1989 // 14th Season at Kansas Arkansas, 1998 // 14th Season at Kansas Assistant Head Coach/Vertical Jumps Sprints/Hurdles PROMINENT PUPILS PROMINENT PUPILS Natalia Bartnovskaya - 2013 Indoor NCAA Champion, 2013 Outdoor Michael Stigler - 2015 NCAA Champ (400H), 4x First Team All-American, 4x Runner-Up, No. 13 indoor performer in NCAA history Big 12 Champ, 2x NCAA Runner-Up (400H) Jordan Scott - 2010 National Champion, 9x Big 12 Champ Paris Daniels - 2x Big 12 Champion (200M), 3x First Team All-American Kate Sultanova - 4x All-American, 4x Big 12 Champion Nickesha Anderson - 4x All-American (60M, 100M, 200M), 2008 Big 12 Amy Linnen - 2x NCAA Champion, NCAA record holder (2002-11), No. 5 Champion (60M), School record holder (60M, 100M, 200M, 4x100M) indoor performer in NCAA history Julius Jiles - 2007 All-American (110H), School record holder (60H, 110H) Anne Taylor - 10x NCAA Champion, 15x All-American, 5x Big 12 Champ ANDY KOKHANOVSKY WAYNE PATE Abilene Christian, 1998 // 13th Season at Kansas Indiana, 1981 // 11th Season at Kansas Throws Horizontal Jumps/Combined Events PROMINENT PUPILS PROMINENT PUPILS Jessica Maroszek - 2x Big 12 Champion (discus), Big 12 and school record Lindsay Vollmer - 2013 NCAA heptathlon champion, 4x Big 12 champion holder (discus), 3x First Team All-American (discus) (hep, pent), KU record holder (60m hurdles, pentathlon, heptathlon) Alena Krechyk - 2x Big 12 Champion (hammer throw), KU record holder Andrea Geubelle - 3x NCAA Champion (long jump, triple jump), 2013 US (WT, HT) National Champion (triple jump), 12x First Team All-American (long jump, Mason Finley - 8x All-American (discus, shot put), 4x Big 12 Champion triple jump) Egor Agofonov - 2x NCAA Champion (weight throw), 6x All-American, 6x Big Aarik Wilson - 2008 Olympian (triple jump), 2x NCAA Champion, 12x 12 Champion (weight throw, hammer throw) All-American Eric Metcalf - 2x NCAA champion (long jump), 14-year NFL wide reciever MICHAEL WHITTLESEY JOHN BAUMANN Connecticut, 1990 // Ninth Season at Kansas Doane, 1990 // Third Season at Kansas Middle Distance/Distance Strength & Conditioning PROMINENT PUPILS PROMINENT PUPILS Rebeka Stowe - 2x All-American (steeplechase), 2012 Big 12 Champion Nick Miller - 4x Big 12 Champion (weight throw, hammer throw), 2013 (steeplechase), KU record holder All-American (weight throw), OSU school record holder (WT, HT), 2014 Lauren Bonds - 2x All-American (1,500m), 2010 Big 12 Champion (1,500m) Midwest Field Athlete of the Year. Shalane Flanagan- 2008 Olympic bronze medalist (10,000m), 2x NCAA cross country individual champion, 2003 NCAA Indoor 3,000m champion, 2017 Women’s NYC Marathon winner Alice Schmidt - 2x NCAA 800m champion, 2x member of US Olympic team

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